Mahler’s Zen
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the
The new podcast series Embrace Everything – The World of Gustav MahlerTM, a multi-season exploration of the composer’s complete symphonies, launched with Symphony No. 1 on
I am thrice homeless: as a Bohemian-native among the Austrians, as an Austrian among the Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an
In Zen tradition, it is said that transmission happens when “You can stand on your teacher’s head.” This means, you have attained penetration of the
“It’s most extraordinary that Mahler – with his fine sense of rhythm – cannot walk two successive steps at the same pace. Instead, he changes
And so, it metastasizes. This ineluctable concept-listening disease… Since that listening of the final movement of Mahler’s First Symphony, I fell into study this eveningof
I have written many times before about the strange fact of my love for classical music (leaning strongly to the Austro-Germanic tradition), and yet the
According to the respected Mahlerian, Norman Lebrecht, this “long-rumoured photograph of Gustav Mahler being stretchered off a train on his final arrival in Vienna on